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Syntactically
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In a way that relates to the arrangement of words and phrases to form grammatically correct sentences.
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The sentence was syntactically correct but made little sense semantically.
Linguists analyzed the poem syntactically to understand its unusual word order.
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Derived from 'syntax,' from Greek 'syntaxis,' meaning 'arrangement' or 'putting together.'
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